Recycling marmite and Nutella jars

Ectophile

I make a reasonable effort to rinse out any jars, using the water left after I have done the washing up. Half filling the jar with warm soapy water and giving it a really good shake will shift most things. Eventually.



But I don't care if the jars aren't perfectly clean. Where I live, they are just smashed up and used as a sand substitute, so a little bit of Marmite here or there isn't going to make much difference.

MrsStepford

Don't eat Nutella or Marmite so no recycling probs there. Glass supermarket spice jars can be a pain though. The fine stuff clumps and it's difficult to get out. I guess I need to buy a bottle brush.

Carrot007

greyteam1959 wrote: »

I never wash out jars for recycling.
I don't see the point.

You should be fined.

Josh107

Small quantities of stock, yoghurt jam, yeast, solids, etc - instead of buying those small plastic freezer containers, with ill fitting lids, use thick glass marmite, (nutella, etc) jars.

Thicker glass wont shatter, half fill, loosen the lid while its freezing first, then tighten...

Josh107

brown marmite glass is of low grade use - ground up for road making

Owain_Moneysaver

MrsStepford wrote: »

Don't eat Nutella or Marmite so no recycling probs there. Glass supermarket spice jars can be a pain though. The fine stuff clumps and it's difficult to get out. I guess I need to buy a bottle brush.

On the same principle, put a little vegetable oil inside and let it soften the clumps and you will have flavoured oil.

Use within a short time as otherwise you might get botulism or something from stale moist spices.

Obukit

Hate to say it but I never bother to clean anything - I figure it is just a waste of water because by the time it has been smashed in together with thousands of other people's recycling none of it will be clean.

As I understand it clean jars etc matter when you are segregating the recycling - which makes it more valuable. To me for mixed recycling collection there is little point using huge quantities of water to clean something just for it to get dirty again and then be cleaned more efficiently an masse.

That said, I do rinse out jars like Marmite when there is something delicious in reward!